IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

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My gratitude to publishers who have generously permitted the reprinting of copyrighted selections, I would here publicly express.  To Little, Brown & Company I am indebted for the use of the extract called “Eloquence,” which is taken from a discourse by Daniel Webster; to Small, Maynard & Company for the poem “A Conservative,” taken from a volume by Mrs. Gilman, entitled “In This Our World;” to the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for the poems by Mr. Burton; and to Longmans, Green & Company for the extracts from the works of John Ruskin.  The selections from Sill and Emerson are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, publishers of their works.

The quotations under the headings “Exercises for Elemental Vocal Expression” and “Exercises for Transition,” with a few exceptions, are taken from “The Sixth Reader,” by the late Lewis B. Monroe, and are here reprinted through the courtesy of the American Book Company.

Leland Powers.

INDEX

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Across the fields to Anne, Richard Burton

Brook, the Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Cavalier tunes Robert Browning
   I. Give a Rouse. 
  II.  Boot and Saddle.

Columbus Joaquin Miller

Coming of Arthur, the Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Conservative, A Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Each and all Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elaine Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Eloquence Daniel Webster

EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION

EXERCISES FOR TRANSITION

Fezziwig ball, the Charles Dickens

Five lives Edward Rowland Sill

GREEN THINGS GROWING Dinah Mulock Craik

HERVE RIEL Robert Browning

IF WE HAD THE TIME Richard Burton

LADY OF SHALOTT, THE Alfred, Lord Tennyson

LAUGHING CHORUS, A

LIFE AND SONG Sidney Lanier

LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott

MONT BLANC BEFORE SUNRISE S.T.  Coleridge

MY LAST DUCHESS Robert Browning

MY STAR Robert Browning

PIPPA PASSES, Extracts from Robert Browning
   I. Day. 
  II.  The Year’s at Spring.

RHODORA, THE Ralph Waldo Emerson

RING AND THE BOOK, THE, Extract from Robert Browning

SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, I. Charles Dickens